Danzhou ( zh, t=儋州 , p=Dānzhōu) is a
prefecture-level city
A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province of China, province and above a Counties of the People's Republic of China, county in China's ...
in the northwest of the Chinese island province of
Hainan
Hainan is an island provinces of China, province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally mean ...
. The administrative seat and urban center of Danzhou is
Nada Town. Danzhou was upgraded from a county-level city into a prefecture-level city in February 2015.
History
What is now Danzhou was settled by Cantonese peasants firstly named Danzhou ( zh, labels=no, t=儋州) in the 12th century and only renamed to Danxian in 1912 after hundreds of years, but later re-obtained its name Danzhou after the Communist takeover in the 1950s.
During
World War II
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, Danzhou was among the top most devastated counties in Hainan as the Japanese had massacred more than 30,000
Cantonese people in Danzhou, destroying over than 10,000 houses and 300 Danzhou villages.
Subdivisions
Danzhou is a
prefecture-level city
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of the
Hainan
Hainan is an island provinces of China, province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally mean ...
province
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. An uncommon administrative feature is that it has no
county-level division. The city government directly administers over 17
towns ( zh, s= , p=zhèn , labels=no), one state-run institute, and four state-run farms plus an economic development zone:
Demographics
The city's population was in 2010. The Han population is 857,342 and the minority population is 75,020.
Language
The Danzhou natives mainly speak the
Danzhou dialect of
Yue language, unlike
Hainan Min language that is spoken throughout most of eastern Hainan.
Transportation
The area will be served by
Danzhou Airport, an under-construction airport approximately northeast of Nada. It will be international-class, built to handle the increasing number of tourists visiting the area. The airport is scheduled for completion in 2022.
The
Hainan Western Ring High-Speed Railway also provides access.
Climate
The area has a
tropical wet and dry climate (
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''Aw''),
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See also
*
List of administrative divisions of Hainan
*
Danzhou dialect
References
External links
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Cities in Hainan
Prefecture-level divisions of Hainan